ABSTRACT
Today the elaboration of projects on the cultural plane is justified by the acknowledged specificness of this plane. It would seem that it might only be possible to by-pass the state and its institutions, to redirect ‘cultural’ institutions towards non-terrorist objectives when an overt, if not an official cultural crisis arises, a crisis of ideologies, of the institutions themselves, when terror would be inadequate for the closing of the microcosm. A cultural revolution requires a cultural strategy with rules that can be set down. Philosophical tradition involves restrictions of a negative order, forbidding the assertion of certain absurdities, the pronouncement of tautologies or of postulates lacking in coherence; in this respect it is, like logic, an incomplete but essential discipline. The revival of art and of the meaning of art has a practical not a ‘cultural’ aim; indeed, our cultural revolution has no purely ‘cultural’ aims, but directs culture towards experience, towards the transfiguration of everyday life.
